Extreme jazz fusion reharmonization

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON:
/ adamneely
My band sungazer's cover of Jason Derulo that has way, way too many chords.
• Sungazer - Want to Wan...
Knower's kickass cover of Promises. I cannot overstate my love of this band.
• Nero/Skrillex - Promis...
PDF of examples from today's lesson
drive.google.c...
BACKGROUND MUSIC
sungazermusic.b...
Follow me on the interwebs:
/ adamneely
/ its_adamneely
Peace,
Adam

[@matsomo]

PROTIP: Make sure the synth and the vocals are in the SAME KEY!

[@StefanoPapaleo-TS]

THis gotta become a new meme!:))

[@whycantiremainanonymous8091]

PROTIP: Make sure the synth and the vocals are NOT in the same key. It's boring when they are.

[@TheBjern]

Songs in the key of synth AND vocals

[@Lrac170]

GNO = music

[@baxkill]

That's Where You're Wrong Kiddo

[@bonydanza7046]

Y'all laugh but jazz ruined my life. Its an escalating high. The other night I stole my neighbor's baby grand piano at gunpoint and pushed it down the fire exit stairs just to savor that sweet, discordant tension

[@neaituppi7306]

Wow, that is so meta to a diatonic dissonance leading to sociopathic harmony.

[@ricsouza5011]

I WANT THE JAZZZZZZ

[@JacksonCarson]

It's no wonder that so many of the greats were extreme substance abusers.

[@sl1pz369]

use the randomize tool in FL Studio

[@theinternet1424]

Mozart did that when he was 4 months old. And that Mozart was, of course, Alber Einstein.

[@arronviolin]

This is a fantastically useful video. One takeaway: "The more chords you know, the more courage it takes to not play them." -Jacob Collier.

[@evanyoon1230]

Adam Dada what

[@milobrosamer272]

@@dardsdards gottem

[@andrejoshua7018]

@@dardsdards or maybe the trash one is ur ears :/

[@jeebuz6627]

@@dardsdards u listened to djesse vol.3? U should

[@jeebuz6627]

@@dardsdards ok. You don't like his music. Yes, some of his songs are hectic and experimental (which are still fun to listen to especially for musicians), but he has some unmistakable gems that conform to the simplistic ideas of music that you like. All i need, his most recently released song, broke his record for the number of tracks and yet it is one of his most simplistic and "listenable" songs. Hideaway is also one of his gems. At the end of the day, you don't like his music, which is absolutely fine. I just think some of your criticisms are flawed.

[@arturcgs]

My dream is to fully understand your videos

[@xFliox]

Same thing here

[@williamromig3812]

Me too!!!

[@jonnelson5881]

Step 1: take theory 1-4 Step 2: pay attention Step 3: profit (not really, we're jazz musicians ayyo)

[@Setri123]

after studying a little this video made a lot more sense..not that I can do this myself still but..

[@AlexM-ob2jd]

he makes things sound way more complecated. it is not soooo complicated .

[@whyogodwhy]

ooOOoo tHaTs ᵗʰᵉ J A Z Z

[@alexpalmer7018]

I neEd MOrE J A Z Z

[@hyperbiscuit2284]

JAAAAAAAAAAAAZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@musik350]

no but why jaZzZZz

[@swamdono]

SoOo JaZzZzYyYyBut I don't really understand what's going ooon herrrrrrrre.

[@kevg7040]

I'm literally the 1000th like

[@omertabach9794]

"Extreme jazz fusion reharmonization of pop music", or, How I got tricked into hearing the first few bars of 'Shape of You' about 1000 times.

[@zacfortin9023]

Omer Tabach same

[@ferce889]

Sorry you couldn't appreciate the finesse

[@johannesdesilentio1536]

An existential nightmare.

[@nongkhiew]

A more condensed experience of hearing this song everywhere, everytime

[@zh4ngx]

same

[@cultistsash]

I showed this to my wife (who does not know any music theory) and she said "So he keeps playing the song but with worse chords each time?"

[@noahmay7708]

J A Z Z

[@supergene256]

😂

[@joshentertainment2]

This regard sounds horrendous

[@satyu131089]

It's true though! May be the chords could sound better in the context of a well- developed song, but on their own, I don't know their intent. I know Adam is trying to explain a technique here, so it's bound to be a bit artificed, but that's exactly what it is, artificed.

[@Hump007]

Underrated comment

[@mememem]

Ah yes, the classic constant structure major seventh harmony cycled in major thirds across consecutive multi-tonic systems; of course.

[@lettuceprime4922]

The semicolon makes this work.

[@goldacunit9464]

Lol

[@AaronQ1222]

I completely absorbed this as a music theory buff, but I'm sure a few people got lost trying to process that, lol.

[@Synequanon]

I for one am fascinated by all of this but can't understand what's going on. I feel really dumb for not catching up fast enough. Some of the arrangements sound great to my ears, but I couldn't reharmonize like Adam does because : theory !

[@jacques9515]

meme what the fuck

[@greghaybittle_edu]

Reharmonisations...... 1:45 Original 2:05 Diatonic 2:57 Non-Cyclic 3:36 Varied Harmonic Rhythm 4:13 Added Tensions 4:42 Cycle 5 Progression 5:26 Tritone Substitution 6:38 Chromatic Bassline 8:07 Ascending Bassline 9:17 Mirror Chords 9:50 Multi-Tonic Systems 10:24 12-Tone Great tutorial Adam!

[@PKMartin]

Ok... I was with it about as far as tritone substitution, just barely. The chromatic basslines sound like shepard tones turned into piano chords, and the avant-garde mirror/multi-tonic stuff is a bridge too far. Apparently this means I appreciate 6/11 jazziness, a suitably weird fraction.

[@bryanedinquirozmacott589]

thank you Greg for this summary .. how i can do it in others video that i has considered need that minutes guide.. thank u very mch

[@greghaybittle_edu]

If you just type the times as a comment or within your own videos - by default it should generate the links.

[@reynaldguibone4859]

Thanks!

[@greghaybittle_edu]

No problem at all!

[@vitormelomedeiros]

Step 1: Get a person who never really thought about music theory and make them watch 10:00 Step 2: Look at their face

[@dariusduesentrieb]

it looks interesting, just looked in a mirror

[@LydsTherinNotamon]

Can confirm a person doesn't even have to lack a background in theory to raise an eyebrow.

[@OEpistimon]

It will probably be something like 10:47.

[@QalinaCom]

The problem is, I am married to the person I just made watch this. I think they feel trapped-there was a genuine horror in their eyes, but they are stuck with me;-)

[@moracabanas]

Just listen John Coltrane's Giant Steps for just that example about multitonic systems

[@fabianvanderelst9643]

Me: mom, can we have Ed Sheeran? Mom: No, we have Ed Sheeran at home. Ed Sheeran at home: 10:25

[@Kurtis0316]

I'm actually dead

[@Catmomila]

That was my favorite non-functional reharmonization. I'd unironically like to listen how it goes lmao

[@adityasaxena7374]

I'm dead hahahahaha

[@SubtleHawk]

This one and the multi-tonic one are honestly really great. The 12 tone serial one sounds like a cool boss fight and the multi-tonic one is just another giant steps meme.

[@openreels]

Now that's f*ing funny!

[@Pfaeff]

1. Screw music theory 2. Use random chords for maximum Jazz 3. .... 4. PROFIT!

[@Setri123]

that's essentially what I do when writing

[@bigPianist99]

Thats not how it works. Thats not how any of this works.

[@oljenka88]

If only... Somehow we live in a backword world where 4 chords of every pop song and Taylor Swift's one note melodies earn millions while countless hours of self perfection, complicated constructions and practice are underappreciated af

[@raheem8635]

oljenka88 I see what you're saying, but to play devils advocate, the general populace doesn't understand complex jazz structure and it takes like 0 effort to listen and understand pop music.

[@flukecentral5641]

@lee hamlin u dont understand lol

[@BenLevin]

Bravo! You touched on examples from the entire spectrum of harmony pretty much.

[@iamandes4455]

Ben Levin do you think J. Coltrane, whilst comping, thought ahead in terms of some/all of these tools? Or used the feel of the moment and the feel of what should come next (expected/deceptive/a surprise) and used the appropriate tool to carry out what he thought the sound should develop into? (Probably yes?)

[@ayyyy1493]

John Coltrane's synths were never in the same key as his vocals, smh.

[@overtonesnteatime198]

Superimposition

[@Loogaroo1]

2:06 OK, that's interesting... 2:58 This sounds pretty cool. 3:36 Now I'm really starting to enjoy this! 4:13 Uhh... we're almost there, but not quite 4:43 There we go! Love it! 5:27 Wait, what are you doing 6:38 No stop 8:08 I SAID STOP 9:18 ADAM YOU'RE HURTING ME 9:51 WHY 10:25 WHYYYYYYY

[@fabianvanderelst9643]

The second and third tritone at the tritone subs part sound nice to me, but after that, I don't really like it anymore. Appreciate the skill though!

[@eemelipruiksma]

But the later ones have more S P I C E

[@benjaminzeev2177]

mister.nimoe furry reee :p

[@ConvincingPeople]

Loogaroo The one at 6:38 with the descending chromatic bassline (essentially an extended line cliché) is honestly my favourite. Adventurous on a structural level but also perfectly consonant and a bit dreamy. I also think that the last three have some potential if they were appropriately orchestrated; the piano alone is really too blunt a timbre to carry across the interaction of mirror chords with such a straightforward sung melody, and it gets particularly harsh with the tone row version, which is already very tense and aggressive. The multi-tonic system one kinda works, though? Although the three from your favourite to mine are a lot stronger in terms of balancing spice with catchiness.

[@Loogaroo1]

@@ConvincingPeople I'll admit that I don't hate the descending chromatic in principle; there are definitely songs that carry it off quote well, although they tend to be a little more obvious about keeping the bassline consistent with the melody (Usually in a i-V-i7-IV-VI♭ progression to start). It doesn't work here though. The earlier progressions sound like they're working in partnership with the melody; the descending chromatic is really the first one that makes it sound like the bassline and the melody are just operating independently of each other.

[@Zantrop64]

"The 7 levels of jazz" is basically an update of this

[@aqueiro]

Was thinking the same. As someone who recently saw that video for the first time, I was scratching my chin at how similar they sounded.

[@Zantrop64]

@@aqueiro even if the most recent one goes really far in this mindset I actually think that 2,3, and 7 are the best stages

[@aqueiro]

@@Zantrop64 Yeah I would say that's most people's taste, including my own, judging from the comments. 4 through 6 is reeeeaaaally stretching it for regular folks who are just looking to enjoy a tune. Having said this, I'm totally hooked on music theory at the moment (I know very little) and I still thoroughly enjoy listening the spicier stuff in the video, perhaps because of the context.

[@Zantrop64]

@@aqueiro yeah,i love this but I can't write music for shit

[@segmentsAndCurves]

@@Zantrop64 I can tolerate 5, but not 6. 7 however, is heaven.

[@Riskbreaker927]

Can I just say that your over-use of The Lick for transitions between sections of your videos is awesome? Please never change.

[@dm40981]

god I love this channel.

[@aresharesh8671]

7:49 *S T R E S S E D A F*

[@snickpickle]

I remember playing jazz bass back in college, and we had an *amazing* pianist. We were actually auditioning for the top jazz band, and so in a 12-bar blues piece, I opted to do a chromatic scale at measures 11 and 12. The pianist caught what I was doing. We were in C Major, and to this day, 40+ years later, I can still hear that glorious Db chord leading back into bar 1! This video validated my walking bass line in doing the tritone substitution!

[@spatialfrequency6707]

Oh wow! That’s awesome. Who’s the cat on keys?

[@MushOfficial]

You're like the Vsauce of music.

[@SawyerPvP]

Mush he said a while ago that that was sort of his intention, so I guess he's succeeding lmao

[@AloisMahdal]

He doesn't say "...but ... what IS ... chord?"

[@jasonlitherland4270]

Alois Mahdal not enough popping up into the frame

[@2Cerealbox]

I didn't realize Adam doesn't just like Jazz, but "like" likes Jazz.

[@LieutenantBonk]

Well he certainly had his way with this piece of music. Like some kind of deviant. Tonal pornography.

[@martinweymouth]

Tonal pornography, so accurate! 😂

[@Starwarsfan3331]

When I first watched this video I barely liked past the first example. 5 years later, and now the last 2 examples are probably my favorite. Look what you did to me Adam. You did this to me.

[@lambda494]

10:25 is awesome. Sounds like Ed Sheeran is a boss in The Legend of Zelda.

[@stordoy]

Yeah I was thinking of videogame music like that

[@Dowlphin]

Somehow my association was "a Borg trying to make music".

[@TheBorgioso]

This is my favorite video by far. I wouldn't mind the least bit if you made a series of reharm videos

[@Barukh]

Yes, please!

[@deldridg]

Sure thing

[@koalemos1679]

DrZaius Yeah, I enjoyed and mostly followed this video. More would be so highly appreciated.

[@learnerlearns]

Superb concise presentation Sir! When I studied this stuff in college 40 years ago, it was confusing tedious torture. In contrast, your brief well-organized examples from a single simple melody represent each idea clearly without descending into ponderous pedantry. Your use of technology makes each example immediately accessible to those of us who read music, without alienating those who don't. Bits of humor peppered throughout are pleasant welcome surprises. Excellent in every respect!

[@owenmccready5328]

Why do you talk like this?

[@okayroutt]

duality of man

[@taurusteelpan]

It's interesting, Christmas music is probably one of the few industries where jazz re-harmonization thrives (to a certain extent), even to the extent that it may be the standard.

[@adampeters9684]

Been a fan for a while and just found this. As a self-teaching theory nerd, this is hands down your best video, which is saying a lot.

[@MindlessMegaLawl]

Ikr? This video slit my head open regarding musical harmony, and largely introduced me to the marvelous world of understanding and enjoying jazz harmonies expressed across many genres. I fucking love this video, for short.

[@burtonlang]

Loved those clips of black-&-white Adam orjazzming.

[@qotsa007]

Jazz realy is like smoking; you start of with a hookah pipe (a few minor 7th chords in a song or some catchy jazz licks, looped in hip hop), then a cigarette follows (a full jazz song, probably some smooth jazz or swing music) and before you know it you're blowing away fatty's like it's no thing (Parker, Mingus, Coltrane, ...). And then there are those sad cases of heroin users, completely isolated from all that is happening around them; free ja.. I mean heroin, however doesn't look like a fun activity to outsiders, but man are those junkies enjoying themselves.

[@qotsa007]

PRO TIP: According to a lot of the performing artists themselves, the jazz equivalent of heroin, free jazz, seems to pair quite well with actual heroin. Ha!

[@Sean-Ax]

Brocht Vasquez . I love this comment.

[@spacejazz6272]

Brocht Vasquez I used to be a free jazz addict. 5 months clean now. Its been tough but I know that its just for the best

[@88KeysToPlay]

There's a 12-step program for players addicted to free jazz, it's called "Standards Anonymous". The first step is acknowledging there's a higher harmony.

[@clustercrash2995]

Gold comments folks, just wanna mention the specific feeling of time freeze which heroin is known for and just might be something about it which folks like Parker may have looked for before kicking from his altered universe into the alto sax. There is something hydraulic about his playing. Cold No drug apology was intended

[@AndreiGrozea]

the grey Adam should have a name, Adam Durden

[@omarlittle1783]

As a professor (and an amateur drummer), I want to thank you for making these ideas acceptable, clear, and interesting. Keep up the great work.

[@MidlifeRenaissanceMan]

so how do you go the other way ? How would you untangle say Coltrane's Interstellar space into a mindless pop song ?

[@shermanthompson871]

Chris Wilson yes do this turn giant steps into a four chord pop song 😂😂😂😂

[@whycantiremainanonymous8091]

Somebody did make "A love supreme" into a hit single in the 80s (though that was a pretty complex piece of pop music, relatively speaking).

[@MidlifeRenaissanceMan]

My Penis is Made of Dog Shit did a cover of Coltrane's Interstellar Space Sherman Thompson​. I know that. I was looking for something more _conventional_ in its execution. So how would you make it say Happy House, yet have a Coltrane Head say _"Get the fuck out of here ! That's Interstellar Space. Fucking Coltrane's Interstellar Space ! What the....."_

[@xR0f1m4ox]

I don't think you can do Mars for example but Venus could be done I think. The beginning is distinct enough and most importantly diatonic, so you could throw some cyclic chords under it, some four on the floor and maybe some very devoted Coltrane fans would get it. But only the beginning works because as soon as he gets out of that diatonic scale you're screwed, so it'd have to be more of a quote. Hope this answers the question in some way. Everything non-diationic is going to proof difficult if you already want to change rhythm and harmony. Unless you have lyrics of course because then you can do all sorts of things and people would still recognize it.

[@MidlifeRenaissanceMan]

Use the non diatonic stuff in the breakdown Steve Weller​. It's an interesting (spelled pointless) challenge, as it will piss off the pureists and most of the rest of the population just wouldn't get it. It would be an inside joke for such a minority.......It's almost worth considering :-)

[@cooperm211]

This is phenomenal! Probably the most succinct explanation I've ever seen of some pretty complex techniques.

[@andycrystal]

Not only is Adam Neely an incredibly talented musician and arranger. His vids are so utterly entertaining and well laid out. Way to go Adam!

[@iLikeTheUDK]

The striking chord changes may be disturbing to the layman's ear.

[@borggus3009]

Maybe it just sucks. If you have to learn to like something is it really good?

[@rynabuns]

borggus: I guess it’s like wine-tasting; first time you have alcohol in general it tastes awful… but that doesn’t mean alcoholic drinks suck; it’s just an acquired taste. I find crazy chords exciting to listen to, but I understand why most people would prefer a simple four-chord structure.

[@daniellbondad6670]

+borggus Some of the listeners of more complicated genres just find pleasure in hearing the application of theory as they listen.

[@unanonymous4655]

@@rynabuns I guess it's like piss tasting; first tiime you drink piss in general it tastes awful... but that doesn't mean piss sucks; it's just an acquired taste.

[@invadeuranus5996]

lmao its a reference to adam neely's video about the national anthem

[@iLikeTheUDK]

I actually found the 12-tone version really nice and not alienating at all.

[@BetaChri5]

you reached musical peak wokeness

[@claymodelexpert]

iLikeTheUDK this comment is so fucking funny when its out of context

[@darrenseder5923]

The twelve tone version rocked. I agree

[@Vindbragd]

Very cool! I'll have to rewatch this one a couple of times and explore some of those concepts you mention. Not a jazz musician by any stretch of the imagination(durr metal), but I really dig the sounds of this reharmonisation. Jarring, maybe, but oh so satisfying. I'll have to go listen to Fredrik Thordendals Special Defects again now, tho.

[@AdamNeely]

yeah, a lot of the more adventurous metal guys definitely have explored this stuff in detail. I, admittedly, haven't checked out a lot of that stuff, but it's certainly out there. Ron Jarzombek is a guy I know who loves that 12-tone.

[@Ellotus13]

I personally think Thordendal is a genius. People often refrence this, but he takes quite a lot from Alan Holdsworth in his solos, but I think that proves he has a clear vision of what he's doing. If you are unsure, I'd suggest to check out Alan, it might help to get a clearer picture! Best wishes!

[@Vindbragd]

Agreed, he seems to have an idea where he's going with things. Theres just no way he's just been lucky all these years, haha.. Him having played with Mads Öberg and Morgan Ågren sements it in my book. Whether or not he's thinking in classical theory or just through being self-taught and going by ear and shapes on the fretboard, he knows what he's doing. I don't actually know if he's into theory or not, but I know 'it.. move' :D

[@irvinggonzalez575]

LambdaReion metal inspired me to learn to play bass but it is abstract stuff like the material covered in this video that made jazz my primary musical interest. if you start down this rabbit hole you'll end up becoming a jazz musician

[@Orphen01]

Go check Stolas, Dance Gavin Dance and The Fall of Troy if you wanna hear some cool jazz chords.

[@LithiumThiefMusic]

Oh yeah, that's that jazz! I want that jazz. I want MORE jazz!

[@GogiRegion]

This video gave my band an album idea (we’re now doing a jazz fusion pop reharmonization album), as well as teaching me the beauty of the tritone substitution, which I really wish I had learned about sooner. It’s great.

[@ajadrew]

The 12 Tone Row at 10:40..... Loved it!

[@ezetosan]

Best fucking video, humor, curiosities, simple explainations, and the best JAZZY HARMONIES OOOOH YEAH

[@ezraschell6254]

Adam: “Good friend of the channel Béla Bartók” Béla Bartók: Died September 26th, 1945

[@l_ndonmusic]

Ezra Schell That’s the power of jazz. You can listen to Adam Neely in your grave

[@krokovay.marcell]

Yeah...that was the joke...

[@AlDunbar]

@@l_ndonmusic not just to your grave but well past it!

[@adrianodduarte]

No Shit! He's dead?!

[@nihil1]

If I were Sheeran, I'd be really sad listening to the version at 3:38... Because it sounds soooooo much better than his own.

[@NickSBailey]

Some of it does but the rhythm of the vocal doesn't work with it very well.

[@geometrydashbayve5004]

Maybe to you, but they were written for different purposes and for different instrumentation. Ed Sheeran's version was written for vocals, synth marimba, guitar and percussion, and was written mostly to be catchy and appealing to wide audiences. Adam's version was written for vocals with piano accompaniment, and was written to demonstrate how chord progressions could be made more colourful with more variety. (Let's also not forget that, for the sake of simplicity in terms of music theory, Adam transposed the song up a half-step. The intention was probably to reduce accidentals in the key signature, but it also happens to make the whole thing sound a little brighter as well.) My question is, would the original composition still accomplish its original purpose, especially with the change in instrumentation? I doubt that very much. Take, for example, the change in harmonic rhythm introduced in bar 4 of Adam's arrangement. This change in harmonic rhythm is not compatible with Ed's composition due to the fact that the synth marimba does not fall on the fourth beat of the bar. It would be odd to change the rhythm of the harmony to where the marimba plays (i.e. the 16th note upbeat before count 3) as we would not switch chords on the next marimba hit (the 8th note upbeat before the next bar) so it would sound unbalanced. The only solution is, therefore, to remove the change in harmonic rhythm, in other words... we're back to the original. The fact that the harmonic rhythm could not be changed was a direct product of the instrumentation, and I'm guessing the choice of the instrumentation was to make it catchy (just a guess don't kill me). So yeah, the chord changes presented in Adam's example literally could not be used in the original composition because they were written for different purposes. Which one appeals to you more in this case isn't relevant, because it's not really possible to compare them.

[@bensblues]

sheeran is trash

[@luuk341]

@@bensblues Im sure a hyper popular and succesful millionaire will be really sad that some random youtube commenter thinks that he is trash lol.

[@bensblues]

@@luuk341 you think I'm the only one who thinks he's trash? Anyone who knows the slightest about music history knows that he and everyone else on the charts are dreadful musicians. Since when did wealth make people better people or even musicians?

[@WernerErkelens]

Hnnggg I want that jazz, give me the JAAAAZZZ!

[@ozzysman07]

Werner, you follow me everywhere stop stalking my music taste

[@philiphigh7189]

After enough alterations it gets to be all tension and no release - maybe useful for a limited effect, but... So much depends on expectation and willingness to go along for the ride. Theory is a way of understanding what happened, not necessarily a good way to make things (music) happen, if you know what I mean. Great video.

[@troodon1096]

As many have put it: music theory is descriptive, not prescriptive.

[@NickyWoodworth]

I’m in love with the tritone subs at 5:26

[@Gallywomack]

They push and pull like a magnet do

[@segmentsAndCurves]

I mean tritone subs are nice and all but you can't deny the superior of the 12-tone row, right?

[@WannabeGadd]

Oh my goodness, the bit with Coltrane and juxtaposed YT rants is HILARIOUS, my cheeks are sore! Adam Neely, I love you to bits!

[@mcswordfish]

This was bloody fascinating. Somewhere in the middle, I could no longer understand the theory of what you were doing and so the music stopped being pleasant to my ears. I completely get why someone (such as yourself) would like such a thing, whereas others (like me) essentially lack the vocabulary to process it. It's also interesting to learn that Ed Sheeran is almost tolerable when he sounds like Steely Dan.

[@ShamDBHB]

Nice use of the lick ;)

[@freshpansen6313]

Sham Maárif yeah i noticed it too how he always used "the lick"

[@ShamDBHB]

It's so refreshing

[@mutee333]

What is "the lick"?

[@badmanjones179]

wait where i didnt see it dam

[@ShamDBHB]

badman jones it's literally everywhere in the video😂

[@adamstickelbault]

The first 7 minutes encompass Harmony 1-4 at Berklee. It made me happy, then you start to explore composition techniques haha "Good friend of the channel Bela Bartok"

[@OurNewestMember]

12:28 😂😂😂 social media disses John Coltrane ftw. subscribed.

[@JensLarsen]

This was great! Examples and ideas spot on! Thank you very much!

[@ColocasiaCorm]

Hi jens

[@JensLarsen]

@@ColocasiaCorm How's it going John!

[@kirstencristobal3204]

Best jazz teacher in youtube

[@fourtreemouths]

ahaha "good friend of the channel, Bela Bartok..."

[@calumrife]

I am utterly in love with your channel. I find you super informative and entertaining, and your calm confidence make the information easy to digest. Have a subscribe, sir.

[@adambrandt9113]

The twelve tone row harmony is sick, I love it.

[@burbanpoison2494]

but if I just pick up a guitar and play, I'll figure this all out on my own, right?

[@AdamNeely]

yeah, reconstructing 400 years of harmony developed by hundreds of thousands of musicians and composers by yourself is totally doable!

[@TheUrglbrgl]

Adam Neely anyways, here's wonderwall

[@EpicUXnl]

Hah

[@crespinjav]

Right...

[@shiningarmor2838]

Maybe if you don't get stuck on triads, maybe.

[@RandallStephens397]

I barely know how to read music, this was way over my head, and I'm pretty tone-deaf on top of all that. I have no idea how youtube took me here, but I still found this video really fascinating and informative.

[@reynaldguibone4859]

I'm so sorry about your situation of being a tone-deaf. But I'm just curious of it. How do you hear music/song/tone? Is it all flat or there still a variation of pitch but you just can't identify it? Thanks for the answer!

[@reynaldguibone4859]

I'm so sorry about your situation of being a tone-deaf. But I'm just curious of it. How do you hear music/song/tone? Is it all flat or there still a variation of pitch but you just can't identify it? Thanks for the answer!

[@BastiendeLHermite]

The more I watch this and progress on my side, the more I get notions and tools to add to my knowledge. Especially these days as I get more interested in the realm of non-functional harmony. Thanks Adam for this gem of pedagogy and clarity.

[@JoelSilva-bs3zz]

This video was uploaded almost two years ago and since then I've watched it a bunch of times. Always managed to learn something new every time I come back

[@tobybromfield3664]

5:27 was awesome!

[@lodonio1]

Toby Bromfield For me it's the best reharmonization in the video.

[@TeslabladePlaysMC]

As he said, "Oh yeah, thats the jazz!"

[@Fitzliputzli23]

Yea, this one is my favourite, too.

[@BobbyBattista]

"Good friend of the channel, Béla Bartók" made my day, great video altogether, please do more like this one!

[@r.joshuareynolds2449]

dude, Im a theory nerd. You definitely took it to another level. Really enjoyed this. Terrible that I'm so late seeing this video!

[@ZRisyad]

No one: Not even a single soul: Adam Neely: *OOOOH YEA THAT'S THE JAZZ. THAT'S WHAT I WANT. THAT'S THE JAZZ. I WANT THAT JAZZ. HOW WE CAN TAKE IT FURTHER!? I WANT MORE JAZZ!!!!*

[@primitivecereal]

j a zZ

[@doctorwhotardis]

J A Z Z

[@krystal9467]

Z Z A J

[@saulo4302]

g a z z

[@hickorymccay2994]

J A S S

[@emmywillow6599]

Remember the To Do List from the odd time signature vid? Now you should check off "Jazz harder than anyone has jazzed before"

[@patrickfitzgerald2861]

Very, very interesting. Doesn't it eventually become a question of whether or not you care what an audience/listener thinks about what you're doing? Coltrane respected his listeners in "My Favorite Things" by frequent reiterations of the melody. This helped to broaden the appeal of this innovative interpretation, and it became his most requested tune.

[@Nicole-pt4bx]

Patrick Fitzgerald yes! There are even 3 versions of it and Naima in Giant Steps deluxe!

[@yuvalne]

Found out today that the original "PROTIP" comment was apparently deleted :(

[@McDoinky]

אוף באתי לפה כדי לראות אותה גם

[@DuckReconMajor]

i think it's here (the account's username changed) kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnSWnJaCaJx8rNU&lc=Ugx4Y79QAiedReFuGyV4AaABAg edit: you have to copy&paste (or highlight and right-click "go to") the actual link above because KZbin is stupid, otherwise the Highlighted Comment won't show up

[@kirjian]

i come back to this video every now and then to see how much more i can understand of it

[@jonathanmartin4667]

First five minutes: hmmm wow yeah this is cool I get that 10 min in: w t f

[@hamiltonmays4256]

three words: food for thought.

[@tiffanyonwudinanti]

Why doesn't every school have a teacher like you? This helped soooooooo much. Going to do this to tori kelly's songs

[@abdulalshibly3930]

I actually like the 12 tone row line you made

[@GRAYgauss]

I really appreciate that you make these videos. They are very complex and while they are short, they lead to an epic of learning. I like that you don't neccesarily dumb things down, while you do try to explain, you keep the musical terms and make it easy for us to get an idea while still not watering it down so that we can further research it. Keep it up, as a non-musician/mathematician, I find them extremely entertaining as well as enlightening.

[@Flugmorph]

STRESSED AF!

[@MrKylederp]

hey dude, can you do a micro tonal video? Check out Ron Sword too, he has written a bunch of theory books in different tone scales.

[@rafadawabe]

Kyle Ganger this

[@joshhickman528]

Kyle Ganger this [2]

[@MagnusKlo]

Kyle Ganger this [?]

[@LieutenantBonk]

What kind of twisted freaks are you people? Damn these micro-tones straight to HELL!!

[@joshhickman528]

Wot

[@PepperCoyotes]

An Adam Neely video is like a musical subway ride. You kind of get off at your stop or, level of understanding. I made it all the way to the tritone sub x3

[@th_sht_mkr]

God no!! I cry every time I listen to My favourite things by Coltrane! One of my favourite songs for more than 7 years.

[@AleksiEeben]

I want to open a bar and night club with very strict yet simple music policy: Only multi-tonic music is allowed. Cocktail menu will have a Vincent Persichetti quote ("Any tone can succeed any other..." / "...successful projection will depend..." / "...upon the skill and soul of the bartender") and the guests must whistle Giant Steps to a mic to unlock the restroom door. Should I have this in Helsinki or in NYC?

[@SaitosaBard]

Why not both?

[@csscszcsgv]

Haha. Cool. They sound like Bill Wurtz's songs.

[@lamewalrusxd4781]

The Naked Ant knock knock, its jazz fusion

[@bidaubadeadieu]

I would love to see an Adam Neely video on Bill Wurtz's style. I mean, i guess this was sort of it right here, but there's just something so distinct about those harmonies that I can't articulate.

[@floofytown]

Bill Wurtz is my muzical hero, holy shit. I always lump Bill into the same harmonic category as Dirty Loops etc., but he's also got this amazing cheesy-commercial-slash-elevator-music thing going on that just gets me so hard.

[@theknowone9846]

Wait, what's the genre of bill wurtz's songs?

[@joshua-tv]

YES

[@nedaari1]

Great stuff Adam. Yes yes 6:38 - 6:47 was killer. What also sounds kinda cool is the Dbmaj7 (#5)(add13) for the II. Thanks for the breakdown.

[@alexs5723]

This was an incredible pattern feast. The 'multi-tonic systems' example at 9:52 was so beautiful. AND the delishious jazz chords parts in black and white were hilarious. Congratulations on what you've created.

[@lunaponta594]

8:31 "No. Sort of, but mmmmmm not really" this is so memeable

[@sapphic_sophie]

If only Vine wasn’t dead, this clip could really go places

[@segmentsAndCurves]

@@sapphic_sophie Tiktok Sorry, scared souls, for I have sinned.

[@SkeeterMcBeater]

shit's fucking rocket science

[@sheepieworks4974]

yeah. i thought i knew some stuff about music. and i just had no idea what he was talking about 5 minutes into the video. like whaaaaaat

[@Pompom-xy3uu]

Same ._.

[@JakeVH]

Adam, thank you for teaching me music. This particular video has taught me so much, and I come back more and more (and I'm using this for writing chords for original melodies). You do much for the world.

[@macabre2007]

As a child I wasn't able to buy my own albums until my mid teens, my US based English Aunt used to bring Impulse albums to us, as the company she worked for produced the sleeve designs. I was drawn to the blue cover of John Coltrane's - 'Selflessness' album, with a live version of "My Favourite Things". I was amazed, to me this was the jazz i wanted to hear, at the time I was totally unaware it was a cover of the song in the movie. Coltrane for me was awesome and I pestered my mum for a saxophone, she said I could have a guitar provided I had lessons, and low and behold I became a guitarist - you know that instrument with two extra strings? The point I am trying to make is when you live in an affluent information age, you can become a reactionary towards deviance in music, or culture in general. I would wager if these people had been my age say 13 and certainly having no interest in 'musical' movies, and with a vague understanding of what jazz was, to hear something so rich and rhythmic, hearing the chemistry of the musicians, and the mass of sound, it was an epiphany for me, I would say other people in the same situation might have liked it, others not so much, but they wouldn't be trolling it like some of the insult in response to hearing it now. It's a great composition, and coltrane's version is not such a diversion, it's part of the songs historic schema, and the first version I heard.

[@fuzzmanx]

Not to sound bigoted, but I listened to a month worth of top 100 billboard songs last night. I was laughing my ass off on how so much trap, rap, pop and country sounds so alike on the radio. I don't know how people do it.

[@fuzzmanx]

Kiiara's "Gold" is embarrassing

[@AdamNeely]

try writing your own!

[@fuzzmanx]

Adam Neely I wanna! That's the beauty of it, people can do whatever they want.

[@haloljt]

When it comes to hip hop, most of the compositional nuance is actually found in the rapper's flow. That's where you wanna look. Check out how people like Nas, DOOM, Eminem and Pharoahe Monch deliver their notes, it's incredible stuff

[@fuzzmanx]

Benjamin Ljunggren DOOM is pretty fun to listen to. I remember discovering his "Mm...Food" last summer. Never heard a flow like that before.

[@carlquistharris]

Thank you for introducing me to Dirty Loops. Weren't The Bad Plus doing this even earlier with, for example, "We Are the Champions" in 2005? Not that there needs to be a Who did it first ? arms race.

[@AdamNeely]

Like I said, this has been done MANY times before Dirty Loops - it's just that the younger generation will probably be more familiar with them than anybody else.

[@Lalaland.001]

+Adam Neely The bad plus did smells like teen spirit which is glorious AF IMHO, no pun intended. I was wondering if you knew The Bad Plus. Just found your channel, you earned my sub, thank you

[@sandalero]

love your videos adam. they are fun and entertaining and we learn stuff. imho the key acomplishment of dirty loops is the TASTEFUL reharmonisation of songs which differs from the typical 251-gospel way to do things - which i also like. AND they created an album with NO rhodes and NO organ but with ugly pop dance sounds and made the most beautiful production with it and created a new style AND sound of pop music. i love them so much. peace

[@onamixt]

The version with added tensions at 4:13 is the best. It sounds just like the original but with the whole new dimension added to it.

[@openreels]

Cool video! Extremely technical music theory but some interesting examples. In the end, if you understand the musical idiom you are working in (such as post-50s jazz) you can build new chords for a song that are pleasing and take the listener somewhere new--theory or not. Sometimes it's the little surprises that catch the ear! But often the listener has to also be familiar with the idiom in order to "get" what's going on and enjoy it. I came here after watching the Knower cover of "Promises" because the comments referenced Adam. Knower kind of "deconstructed" the song in the way they do, but did not take it in a totally different direction. I really like many of the harmonic structures that Louis Cole uses, which come--in my experience--from jazz/fusion/prog rock, and don't mind them being overlayed on something simpler, as Adam demonstrated. It's more musically interesting to me than the original.

[@QueenToKingOfSpades]

Fuck! Just fuck! I fucking love you man! Most straight forward lesson on reharmonization I've ever gotten. Thanks so much!

[@1totallyrandomperson]

uh... what???

[@shohanrahman9392]

same

[@Loxu69]

this is like a vsauce video but you need to study for years after watching it to actually really understand this is more to get people interested in the subject

[@makingnoises2327]

love coming back to these videos after having learned a little more of the theory, they're super entertaining as a novice, just watching a song get mangled "does it blend" style, but even moreso when you can actually parse statements like "an example of constant-structure major 7 harmony cycled in major 3rds across multi-tonic systems"

[@frederikmarohn6358]

To be fair, you have to have a high IQ to understand John Coltrane. His music is extremely subtle, and without a strong understanding of post bop and avant garde music most of his music will go over a typical listeners head. There is also Coltranes' advanced reharmonizations soloing techniques, deftly woven into the chord structure - his soloing technique often draws from polytonality, for instance. The fans can comprehend his music; they have the intellectual ability to truly appreciate his soloing technique, to realize that his music isnt just notes, they say something about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike John Coltrane truly ARE idiots - of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the usage of "the lick" frequently in his solos over the common ii V I progression, which in itself is a cryptic reference to the popular Wagner-esque leitmotif craze during the romantic era. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as John Coltranes genius wit unfolds itself on their Itunes or what have you. What fools, I PITY them.

[@cicreate5761]

Frederik Marohn Preach! 😂😂

[@dsharkyo]

Don't worry, I watch Rick and Morty.

[@AcornFox]

Poe's Law. Can't tell if this is sincere or sloppy pasta.

[@bhot9293]

I’m cringing.

[@Booskop.]

If this is a serious comment: fuck you. If you're not: it's not funny, fuck you. So I guess, whatever it is you're trying to convey; fuck you and have a nice day.

[@larkinaspic5056]

*JAZZ CHORDS* That had me so hard

[@tonnyteixeira9568]

"THE LICK" always playing in the intervals Genious!!!

[@sebastiaan1996]

Was looking for this

[@daderr99]

Can't believe how much this thing is helping me with songwriting

[@justinstewart8282]

Gotta give credit where it's due. This video goes over a lot of content and explains it very clearly and concisely. I especially appreciated the short and sweet description of a tritone substitution.

[@matkinsonthebass]

My Favourite Things

[@ctrlaltdude]

Awesome video! Very interesting.But what happened to your cool bass intro? I really liked it.

[@BetaChri5]

he only uses it for his bass lessons as far as i know

[@dontdissheavymetal]

Dear Adam, thank you for your amazing videos. I discovered your channel a couple of month ago and learned so much from you since then. The lesson I will take away from this video: after exhausting the theoretical possibilities, just listen to your music and you will find new ways to spice things up "by heart". All the best.